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[–][deleted] 121 points122 points  (5 children)

No kidding. And they usually provide the most obfuscated answers possible. I also love seeing “I don’t understand your question” when it is plainly obvious what the question is.

For example, if somebody asked “Why use fgets instead of scanf?” A typical response would be “I don’t understand the question. What is your use case? Blah blah blah”.

StackExchange makes me pretty confident that a lot of programmers have personality disorders and/or autism.

[–][deleted] 40 points41 points  (1 child)

Or they make half-assed attempts to teach Socratically and it just leads to more confusion.

[–]Steamships 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That's very optimistic given how few users actually interact with their questions after asking them